Max

Cycling ’74 asked artists to make a collaborative Max drum kit – and shared the patches

Kick, snare, hat, tom, and sequencer - the makers of Max remind us that patching your own drum machine gives...

Free Mod Squad v2 adds missing modulation, envelopes, and trackers to Ableton Live

It's incredible this package is free - a full set of fifteen carefully crafted, native-feeling add-ons for Ableton Live that...

Darwin Grosse, musical visionary and voice for Max and DIY learning, has passed away

The most powerful impact anyone can have in music is not just to find their own voice but to help...

Free Markov Variations elegantly morphs between Ableton Live settings with chance

Max for Live creator Dillon Bastan has created one of their best yet - automatically using controllable Markov Chains to...

Bespoke visual noise is the next domain for Robert Henke – so let’s revisit Perlin, anyway

For the year 2022, it's remarkable how much visual generation is still based on decades-old algorithms. But here's one to...

Fire, voltage, metal, and thumping groove as Rojin Shafari tears through ‘It Made You Blind’ live

Definitely don't miss the latest live performance off her new album - and watch to the end, as more abstract...

Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better

If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that...

Now that Ableton Live is Apple Silicon-native, will your plug-ins and tools still work?

Ableton Live 11.1 beta means a native version of the host that can take full advantage of the hardware inside...